Take a largest sized tube of

White and squeeze it out

all over a good sized piece of

blotting-paper, then leave

it one day and night,

put another piece of blotting

paper pressed on the top of

it and leave it in a

drawer one day & night.

Then take it off the blotting

paper with a palette knife,

and grind mix it up on a slab

with a little copal. It is

then best for use if left for

a day or two to skin over.

Then take out a piece from

under the skin with the

palette knife as you

want it for use & close

the skin up again.

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Turn over

P.S.

you

had

better

paint

the

flesh

first

(with

surround

ings if

needed

at the

same time

before you

go on &

let me

see it

before you

go on

to

drafting.

P.S.

Parris's

Medium

can

be got

at

Robersons.

If you

like

order

anything

there

in my

name

.

Trace the copy on to the canvas

with ordinary red chalk.

Then go over the tracing

with red wax-chalk

strongly. Then spread the

stiff white over the [illegible] day's portion

with the palette knife so as to show the outline through, and

lay in the modelling lightly

with Real Ultramarine

little common unstiffened white.

Then do the day's painting

with chiefly with longish

flat hoghairs but with

flat sables also if needed, and

using only the ordinary

unstiffened white after

the first coat of stiff white.

If you find you have

covered with the stiff

white more surface

than you can paint over

in the day, it is best to

remove the unpainted

portion of the white with

the palette knife at close

of the day & lay it again

when you begin next morning.

Be careful in mixing the

stiff white in the first

instance not to use too

much copal, and to turn

it well over and over

with the palette knife till

thoroughly mixed.

It is best to use throughout the

painting as little vehicle

as possible. When necessary,

use Roberson's Medium

mixed with a little of Parris's

Marble Medium to lessen the shine.

Palette

for flesh

Stiff White

White

White

Real Ultramarine

Ultramarine Ash

Malachite

Emerald Green

Terre Verte

Raw Umber

Burnt Umber

Cologne Earth

Deep Yellow Madder

Violet Carmine

Indian Red

Purple Madder

Madder Carmine

Vermilion

Orange Vermilion mixed with a little Strontium Yellow

Scarlet Madder mixed with a little Gamboge

Yellow Ochre

Strontium Yellow

For half-tints.—Mix Violet Carmine, Deep Yel. Mad. & White

Mix Purple madder and Malachite & White